Please help :)

[aoliwei]

Just wondering if someone could help me translate this passage into Simplified characters... It would be such a great help!!!!

In April 2009, I went to China for a month with my younger sister. We visited six cities: Guangzhou, Hengyang, Changsha, Ningbo, Shanghai and Beijing. Ningbo was my favourite city.

While in Beijing, we spent a week with a homestay family.

Mr Chu was very funny. He didn’t like to speak English, and spoke only in Chinese. He asked lots of questions about Australian life and culture. He also really liked eating peanuts. He once asked me, “Are the peanuts in Australia imported or grown onshore?”

Mrs Chu was very kind. She took us to many of China’s best tourist locations such as the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven and the Forbidden city. She also took me and my younger sister to a restaurant where we ate Peking Duck. It was delicious!

Ming Chu was a very committed student! She spent up to 8 hours a day at school, and when she came home she studied some more.

I miss my homestay family very much. I will go back to china this December, and hopefully visit them again!

[889]

You're not planning on having that tattooed, I hope.

[cnzykm]

Here is the translation according to your travel note ;) :

我与我的小妹妹曾经于2009年4月去过中国，我们游玩了六个城市：广州、衡阳、长沙、宁波、上海和北京。其中我最喜爱的要数宁波。

在北京的时候，我们与一户当地人家共同度过了一个星期。

这户人家的储先生非常有趣，他不愿说英语而只用中文与我们交流，对于澳大利亚的生活与文化他问了一连串的问题。他还很喜欢吃花生，一次他问我：“在你们澳大利亚，花生是进口的还是在岸边自己长出来的？”

储太太则很友善，她带我们去游览了包括避暑山庄、天坛、紫禁城在内的中国最好的旅游胜地，她还带我和小妹妹去了一家餐厅，在这里能吃到北京烤鸭，美味无比！

他们的孩子储明是个很用功的学生，她每天在学校要上8小时的课，回家后仍继续学习。

我非常会念这户当地人家，今年12月我将重返中国，届时希望能与他们重逢。

[Lu]

If this is your homework, which to be honest is what it looks like, perhaps you can first give it a try yourself, and post the results here. People here will be happy to correct you or explain difficult things to you.

[889]

And if it is your homework, that wonderful translation's not going to fool anyone.

The only issue I see is that "onshore" in the original text refers to onshore in the onshore-offshore context; that is, domestic vs. foreign. It doesn't mean the peanuts are 在岸边自己长出来的. (Unless they're being grown pre-salted.)

[anonymoose]

Is 储 the only possible or only likely character for the name? And assuming the husband's family name is 储, how normal would it be to call his wife 储太太 (assuming she, by coincidence, didn't also have the family name 储)? And given the daughter is called Chu Ming, again, how certain is it that 储明 are the correct characters?

Also, something else I just noticed...

我与我的小妹妹曾经于2009年4月去过中国

Perhaps I'm erroneously applying English grammar to Chinese, but, if a time is explicitly stated, is it still correct to use 过?

[xiaocai]

But if you used 曾/曾经 earlier it will sound better with 过, I think.